Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1418 – Public Intelligence Blog

8 ways to rethink resources: nappies to benches and food waste to biogas

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1. Nappies to roof tiles and railway sleepers . 2. Paper to reduce food waste . 3. Sustainable construction materials . 4. Clothes from old water bottles . 5. Agri-waste into plastic bottles . 6. Worms as fertiliser . 7. Food waste to biogas . 8. Recycling polyester

Phi Beta Iota: Brilliant examples of remediation in context of continuing to do the wrong things righter (Russell Ackoff 2004). Bio-design and the tri-fecta of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering would make such measures moot.

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JZ Liszkiewicz: 2 Reports – We Are NOT Doomed…Except for the Food Industry

Earth Intelligence

Two Reports Predicting the Future of Humanity Agree We're Not Totally Doomed

Two recent reports on the future of human civilization agree on one important point: We’re not totally screwed. “People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, and increasingly connected, and they are living longer,” concluded the Millennium Project’s 2013-2014 State of the Future, an annual report card on the future of civilization.

A second study—The World in 2025: 10 Predictions in Innovation—had a similarly optimistic take on the coming decade. Collated by Thomson Reuters, the list of predictions include solar power becoming the dominant power source on the planet, babies routinely getting their genomes mapped to assess future disease risk, and teleportation evolving into a legitimate transportation method (albeit for non-human matter).

The one area that the studies significantly clashed over was access to healthy food.

2014/11/19

JZ Liszkiewicz: Think Tank Transparency?

Civil Society, Ethics, Non-Governmental

Transparify Will Begin Re-Rating All Think Tanks In December

Phi Beta Iota: A useful step. However, at least as critical is evaluating the sources and methods used or not used by “think tanks.” Most — such as the Brookings Institute — do not use citation analytics and do not do substantive foreign language research. “Multidisciplinary” is not a term in vogue among these largely pedestrian entities. Holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering are foreign concepts to all of them.

2014/11/19

Jeffrey Jaxen: Embrace Open Source Transparency — Or Lose Market Share

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, Commerce, Corruption

I focus on the idea of open source transperancy in the big corporate food/consumer health arena. It serves as a friendly nudge/warning to large corporations that open sourcing will overtake their market share unless they flow with the changing times.

Starbucks Plays Middle Of GMO Road; Gets Run Over

Phi Beta Iota: This shines a light on the Grocery Manufacturing Asssocation (GMA) and its role in manipulating public perceptions and fronting for Monsanto and others in obfuscating the truth about processed foods, GMO, and other toxins their Members sell to the public.

2014/11/19

Stephen E. Arnold: Court Rules for Google on Corrupt Search — Precision, Recall, Relevance are “Irrelevant” — Paid Outcomes are “Legal”

Corruption, Idiocy, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement

Google Free and Clear to Rank Search Results Any Way It Wants

Well, bad news for those who want to force Google to modify the order in which search results appear. If I understand “Court Rules Google Can Arrange Search Results Any Way It Wants,” relevance is what Google wants. Period.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Court Rules for Google on Corrupt Search — Precision, Recall, Relevance are “Irrelevant” — Paid Outcomes are “Legal””

2014/11/19

SchwartzReport: Screw the Childen, Keep the Prisoners

01 Poverty, 06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

I think we can safely and accurately say that the people of the United States, collectively, while they may care about their own children, or the children of their friends, do not care for children in general. We also have the highest level of food stress with 17 million children going hungry at least part of the year.

Child homelessness in U.S. reaches historic high at 2.5 million

I began writing about what I see as the new American slavery in 2011 (see The New American Slavery). This trend is made up of several parts, prison privatization, all the industries that suckle at the teat of the American Gulag, and the indentured exploitation of prisoners. And it just keeps getting more and more disgusting and blatantly what it is.

California Tells Court It Can’t Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor

2014/11/18

Darrell West: Michael Lewis on Why Inequality is Bad for Billionaires

Cultural Intelligence

Hope you saw author Michael Lewis’s article in The New Republic on how great wealth encourages bad behavior among the rich Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy. He writes that “a body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior … one study … [found that] people driving expensive cars were four times more likely to cut in front of other drivers than drivers of cheap cars.”

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

Guardian Sustainable Business: 8 Recycling Success Stories

JZ Liszkiewicz: 2 Reports – We Are NOT Doomed…Except for the Food Industry

JZ Liszkiewicz: Think Tank Transparency?

Jeffrey Jaxen: Embrace Open Source Transparency — Or Lose Market Share

Stephen E. Arnold: Court Rules for Google on Corrupt Search — Precision, Recall, Relevance are “Irrelevant” — Paid Outcomes are “Legal”

SchwartzReport: Screw the Childen, Keep the Prisoners

Darrell West: Michael Lewis on Why Inequality is Bad for Billionaires